alt Hacker NewsStep 1: deposit money into an Anthropic API account
Step 2: download Zed and paste in your API Key
Step 3: Give detailed instructions to the assistant, including writing ReadMe files on the goal of the project and the current state of the project
Step 4: stop the robot when it's making a dumb decision
Step 5: keep an eye on context size and start a new conversation every time you're half full. The more stuff in the context the dumber it gets.
I spent about 500 dollars and 16 hours of conversation to get an MVP static marketplace [0], a ruby app that can be crawled into static (and js-free!) files, without writing a single line of code myself, because I don't know ruby. This included a rather convoluted data import process, loading the database from XML files of a couple different schemas.
Only thing I had to figure out on my own was how to upload the 140,000 pages to cloudflare free tier.
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Step 1 is where Anthropic lost me.
1. If you don't use it soon enough, they keep it (shame on them, do the things you need to in order to be a money transmitter, you have billions of dollars)
2. Pay-go with billing warning and limits. You can use Claude like this through Google VertexAI
> Step 4: stop the robot when it's making a dumb decision
Yeah I can't stop myself when I'm about to make a dumb decision, just look at my github repo. I ported Forth to a 1980s sampler and wrote DSP code on an 8-bit Arduino.
How am I going to stop a robot making dumb decisions?
Also, this all sounds like I'm doing a lot of skivvy work typing stuff in (which I hate) and not actually writing much code (which is the bit I like).